HR Ops Associate
ABOUT MORPHO
Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that raised million from a16z crypto, Paradigm, Ribbit Capital, Apollo, Vaneck, Coinbase Ventures, Variant and 50 others to build an open credit network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms. Morpho is experiencing exponential adoption, with over billion in deposits on the network and used by institutional clients including Bitwise, Galaxy, and Anchorage Digital and the largest crypto exchanges, such as Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as the open credit network, not just of DeFi, but of the world.
WHY MORPHO EXISTS
Everyone has the potential to build something great for the world. But fulfilling that ambition almost always requires more: people willing to trust you with their capital. Yet access to capital still depends on where you live, who you know, and which institutions are willing to trust you. Even when capital is available, it sits fragmented across disconnected networks and hidden behind intermediaries. The result is a system that fails most of the people it should serve. Borrowers overpay. Lenders earn less than they should. Many are shut out entirely, not because they are unworthy of credit, but because today's infrastructure was never built to connect them. Morpho exists to solve this. Full article here https://morpho.org/blog/why-morpho-exists/.
LOCATION
Paris (hybrid). This role requires regular presence in our Paris office, as it involves office operations and on-site coordination.
HOW WE WORK
We move fast on hard problems in a nascent market with no set playbook: navigating uncertainty is part of the job. You'll be challenged: anyone can question work and decisions must be justified. We keep a high bar and match it with high support: we help each other unblock and share context openly, with low ego. More about our values: morpho.org/jobs http://morpho.org/jobs.
ROLE
The mission of this role is to make Morpho's People and HR operations run smoothly and reliably as the team scales past 70 people, by owning French payroll, onboarding, and office operations end-to-end so that talent and leadership are never pulled into admin.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Own the day-to-day operations of our Paris office, across three areas:
Employee Experience & Office
- Support office operations, including liaison with the building and workspace provider, room bookings, deliveries, and on-site coordination, to keep the Paris office running without friction.
- help coordinate office vendors, supplies, equipment, and facilities requests so the team always has what it needs.
- Support office budgeting and purchasing, and track company assets such as laptops and equipment with Finance for depreciation.
- Support offsite and onsite logistics so team gatherings run smoothly.
People Operations
- Support People Operations for employees across our global workforce as needed.
- Operate employee systems across the company so employee information stays accurate and secure, and provide backup coverage for People and HR admin during absences.
Payroll & Administration
- Collect and validate payroll changes, benefits updates, PTO, and supporting documentation to keep payroll clean and compliant.
- Assist with invoices, expense tracking and approvals, and People-related vendor administration.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
First 30 days
You will have shadowed the team to learn the onboarding and contract-creation flows, gotten to know the tools and the people, and taken over routine office liaison, supplies, and deliveries as an early quick win.
First 4 months
You will proactively help onboard new French hires end to end, and office operations with minimal oversight, measurably reducing the admin load on talent and leadership.
In 1 year
You will be the able to independently handle day-to-day ops, with proper documentation and resilient enough to survive any single person's absence.
MUST-HAVE EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
- Experience or strong curiosity to learn People/HR operations, payroll, or office management, ideally in a fast-growing startup or scale-up environment.
- Highly organized and autonomous
- Tech-savvy and comfortable adopting new tools, AI, and automations.
- Strong ownership
- Based in Paris and able to be regularly present in the office.
- Native or near-native French, plus professional English.
- Humble.
PERKS & BENEFITS
We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.